Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Just Snowboard

At times, it seems like doing something won't be worth it. Getting yourself out of bed, going the extra mile at work and maybe getting to that "awesome" social event. Say you do pull yourself out of bed, sadly, chances are that extra mile at work gets overlooked and that social event turns out to be a total tool-fest. However, when it comes to snowboarding, it's almost always gonna be worth it.
I actually had two days last week where I almost didn't go riding; that would have been a shame. The first day was actually a night. Forecast showed freezing rain for the night, which is absolutely miserable. Luckily it snowed, stayed pretty warm and I got to shred with some good friends. Second day came with a forecast of "high winds"  that nearly derailed a super fun day. I decided just to go anyway, brave the winds and procrastinate homework for another day. As it turns out, it wasn't really windy at all, just a classic Utah spring slush day.

I guess the moral of this whole thing is that snowboarding is awesome... but we already knew that.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Basic Properties of Snow

Spring/Summer snow is usually not stable, as illustrated perfectly here:

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Spring 2011

Spring 2011 has been an interesting one. 

What usually is spring slush park laps was knee deep pow turns.

 
What is usually fresh cut grass and pulling weeds was building snowmen.

And I have loved every second of it.

Now bring on the flooding?


Sunday, April 3, 2011

Wings @Brighton, Now with ESPN!




Base Camp. Zack bottom left, looking inspired.

The "course" 
The Red Bull Minor's Cup was held at Brighton on Saturday 4.2.11. Zack and I checked out a few of the runs the kids had. Watching these lil rippers makes me wish I could have started riding at a younger age... maybe then I'd be good. 

***EDIT*** 
Thanks to espn.com for this, much better than mine, coverage of the event. 

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Spring Conditions 2.0








They kinda speak for themselves...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Spring Conditions



I love spring. I especially love this kind of spring on a brand new Never Summer shred!

Monday, March 22, 2010

Spring IS here




Spent today enjoying the amazing weather, in the 40's, up at Brighton with my amazing wife, who killed it up there. Then I fertilized my lawn, that's right, I fertilized MY lawn... weird. A little swim and an intense Jazz game later, I am BEAT!